[Shen Pei]: Extra rations will only slow things down during a withdraw. Might as well use it for charity to buy some support and bolster one’s reputation.

[SP]: Our Lord loves having a good reputation.

[YS]: Hurry! Bring our ration carts around too!
[?]: Yessir!

[?]: No crowding! Stay orderly!

[Wen Chou]: My Lord, third Master is making you look good with this relief effort.(“…for you [onto] face surface stick gold”)
[Yuan Shao]: Shang-er did well knowing to buy people’s support.(“-er” suffix here is an affectionate reference to someone)

[CR]: I was expecting better ideas from the brat. Bribery through rations? Even I can do that.(rephrased)

[CR]: Ah-Man, the Eight Geniuses were over-hyped.

{Ah-Man is Cao Cao’s nickname}

{gasp~}

[XHD]: Yuan! Get some food and get rid of them.

[XHD]: And get rid of the brat while you’re at it.

[XY]: General Xiahou, please tell the people…

[XHD]: I know, our great Lord will show his sympathetic side!

[XY]: Tell them the rations are used to fight a war.
[XY]: Tell them to go home!

[XHD]: Wh… what? Be careful or they’ll hear you!

[?]: Why do we need to beg?
{drop~}

[?]: Ever since the Guandong Alliance was formed, we were hoping the fighting would be quelled soon so that the refugees could rebuild their lives.

[?]: Yet none of those warlords took action because they’re unwilling to fight Dong Zhuo. And today all of a sudden they’re pulling out of Suan Zao.

[?]: Retreating because they’re out of food? Then how could they spare so much for us!

[?]: So much food and so many troops! Enough to destroy Dong Zhuo and restore peace…

[XY]: Your anger is justified. But it has nothing to do with us.

[?]: Wrong! Lord Cao Cao was willing to fight Dong Zhuo! He might be defeated, but he hasn’t gone home to Chenliu.
[?]: What we’re seeing today is a hero who’s willing to return to Suan Zao and fight again!

[XY]: Our rations are reserved for war! We won’t share them with you! Since you know that, please go home!

[?]: Lord Cao Cao! With the world in chaos, a sack of rice isn’t enough to buy the people’s support.
[?]: Instead of starving to death in wartime…

[?]: we should pledge the last of our strength to a man with the will to end the turmoil!
[?]: Please take us in, lord Cao Cao!

Even more so is his grasp of the mentality of the common people.(I don’t think “herd mentality” is correct here)

When we’re at the end of our resources, he managed to recruit so many men without conscription, rations, or money.
The Eight Geniuses truly live up to their name!

[CC]: The most amazing thing is, they don’t even need training.

[CC]: These people might not be simple refugees.

[CC]: I heard that after their leader Zhang Jue‘s death, most of the Yellow Turban rebels congregated around the Suan Zao region.(you can still translate his name to be “Zhang Jiao” if you want, I haven’t decided)

[CC]: If so, once this small group joins us,
[CC]: the remaining rebels scattered around the country will soon flock to us as well.

[CC]: That will add up to an astonishing number!

[CC]: With few words that tugged the right heart strings, he has changed our fate.

[CC]: If this kid were Zhang Jue, the world would be his for the taking.